Antique Bust and Marble Statue

Antique Sculptural portrait and Marble Statues

Sculptural portrait heads from classical antiquity, stopping at the neck, are sometimes displayed as busts. However, these are often fragments from full-body statues, or were created to be inserted into an existing body, a common Roman practice; these portrait heads are not included in this article. Equally, sculpted heads stopping at the neck are sometimes mistakenly called busts.

The portrait bust was a Hellenistic Greek invention, though very few original Greek examples survive, as opposed to many Roman copies of them. There are four Roman copies as busts of Pericles with the Corinthian helmet, but the Greek original was a full-length bronze statue. They were very popular in Roman portraiture.

Sir Tussauds has a colleection of 19th and 20th century white carrera marble statues mainly from France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy.
Have a look at the items exposed in the Brussels Gallery and give your inetrior a distinguished artistic upgrade.

• Author: Sir Tussauds
• Date: May 2020
• Category: Sculptural portrait
• Client: Tulip Connection